The Black Death: New Lessons from Recent Research - Dorsey Armstrong Audiobook

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  Hogweed
  September 7th, 2023
  

  

  Thanks for a great lecture!
  I read it was actually climate change that allowed the plague to spread so fast! In the 1100’s-1200’s, the weather had warmed up considerably, allowing a tremendous increase in farming and food, which led to a large increase in population in Europe. But at the end of the 1200’s into the 1300’s, the weather changed again, becoming colder, and there were massive crop failures, leading to starvation and weakened immune systems, just in time for the plague to arrive and spread so massively.
  And we think that is takes us to cause weather changes? Been happening since the beginning of the planet.

  The Black Death: New Lessons from Recent Research - Dorsey Armstrong
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  cluckers
  September 8th, 2023
  

  Yes, the death changes naturally. Fires start in nature too. Your logic is that if nature can start fires then when your house Burns down it must be nature’s fault humans can’t cause fires. Yes, the climate changed in the Middle Ages it was natural. That does not automatically mean that humans can’t change the climate. Lots of things can change the climate.

  According to your logic, there is no way a rock from space could change the climate. So yes the dinosaurs never died because of a rock. That is silly.

  See how your logic fails. Under different scenarios.

  One person can’t change much 7 billion can change a lot.

  Here is something to think about. If one person tries garbage around the earth can handle it. If 7 billion do it it can change a lot. Get it.

  The Black Death: New Lessons from Recent Research - Dorsey Armstrong
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  Gweilo
  September 8th, 2023
  

  @Hogwood: this is a great logical framework.
  “Millions of people died from the Black Death in the Middle Ages. Therefore, millions of people should die from Covid and it’s foolish to try to prevent it.”

  “Trump won the 2016 election. Therefore, he must also have won the 2020 election.”

  Or more generally:
  “I can choose to believe whatever I want to and facts don’t matter.”

  The Black Death: New Lessons from Recent Research - Dorsey Armstrong
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  apnea
  September 9th, 2023
  

  

  Hogweed, if I was the type of person who felt embarrassed for other people after they have said very foolish things, I’d be embarrassed for you now, but I’m not that type of person.

  I can smell your cognitive dissonance every time you copy-N-paste the same old tired denier one liner.

  All the record smashing climate jacked events beating up your country must really drive you nuts — all the climate predictions have come to pass & they were only off on the timing - faster than expected {don’t make any big plans}. Watch the calendar to mark the day we gave up repairing and rebuilding our infrastructure because climate change broke the bank and broke your spirit. We’re all gonna burn, but we would prefer you deniers sit at the kiddie table and stop interrupting our adult discussions. No one, but a handful of other deniers want you around. Go hang out with the spherical earth deniers, you’ll fit right in.
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  **U.S. Racks Up Billion-Dollar Disasters During ‘Summer of Extremes**’
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  *The first seven months of 2023 saw the most billion-dollar disasters on record for the time period – and that doesn’t even count the Hawaii wildfires yet.
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  “2023 has already seen the highest number of so-called “billion-dollar” disasters ever recorded in the first seven months of the year, according to government officials, setting it up to likely take the top spot from 2020, when 22 billion-dollar events were recorded.
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  Researchers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration document the weather and climate disasters with damages that reach or exceed $1 billion. By the end of July, the U.S. saw 15 separate billion-dollar disasters.
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  However, the agency is already assessing several more events since the start of August, including droughts, floods, severe storms and the wildfires in Hawaii, where the death toll has surpassed 100 with more than a thousand people still missing.”"
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  https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2023-08-17/u-s-racks-up-billion-dollar-disasters-during-summer-of-extremes
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  $$- AccuWeather increased its estimate of the total damage and economic loss from the devastating wildfires in Hawaii to $14 billion to $16 billion, reflecting additional damage reports received from Hawaii in recent days.Aug 15, 2023 -$$

  The Black Death: New Lessons from Recent Research - Dorsey Armstrong
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  apnea
  September 9th, 2023
  

  

  ***The Fate of Rome Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire - Kyle Harper***

  ” A sweeping new history of how climate change and disease helped bring down the Roman Empire

  Here is the monumental retelling of one of the most consequential chapters of human history: the fall of the Roman Empire. The Fate of Rome is the first book to examine the catastrophic role that climate change and infectious diseases played in the collapse of Rome’s power - a story of nature’s triumph over human ambition.

  Interweaving a grand historical narrative with cutting-edge climate science and genetic discoveries, Kyle Harper traces how the fate of Rome was decided not just by emperors, soldiers, and barbarians but also by volcanic eruptions, solar cycles, climate instability, and devastating viruses and bacteria. He takes listeners from Rome’s pinnacle in the second century, when the empire seemed an invincible superpower, to its unraveling by the seventh century, when Rome was politically fragmented and materially depleted. Harper describes how the Romans were resilient in the face of enormous environmental stress, until the besieged empire could no longer withstand the combined challenges of a “little ice age” and recurrent outbreaks of bubonic plague.”

  https://historyaudio.org/abss/the-fvate-of-rome-climate-disease-and-the-end-of-an-empire-kyle-harper/

  The Black Death: New Lessons from Recent Research - Dorsey Armstrong

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